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[drm:r600_uvd_init] *ERROR* UVD not responding, trying to reset the VCPU!!!
[drm:r600_uvd_init] *ERROR* UVD not responding, trying to reset the VCPU!!!
[drm:r600_uvd_init] *ERROR* UVD not responding, trying to reset the VCPU!!!
[drm:r600_uvd_init] *ERROR* UVD not responding, trying to reset the VCPU!!!
[drm:r600_uvd_init] *ERROR* UVD not responding, trying to reset the VCPU!!!
[drm:r600_uvd_init] *ERROR* UVD not responding, trying to reset the VCPU!!!
[drm:r600_uvd_init] *ERROR* UVD not responding, giving up!!!
[drm:rv770_startup] *ERROR* radeon: failed initializing UVD (-1).
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The strange thing is that before the login window is presented, a black screen is shown and it starts to fade out into a white color (funny, it's quite a smooth animation). Also glxinfo is showing me that Mesa 9.1.3 is still in use, instead of 9.2.

Please report back if you get it working. I have an on-board HD4200 chip and would love to get XBMC working with UVD2/VDPAU via the radeon driver!

Also, where did you find the instructions you posted?
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Hi!
So to answer to your questions:
I've managed to fix the problems by installing the firmware from this ppa: https://launchpad.net/~dtl131/+archive/uvd (I think sudo apt-get install linux-firmware should work, altough I have used Synaptic package manager to install the software from this ppa). So I think you stand correct about the wrong version of firmware.
Also you might want to use this ppa: https://launchpad.net/~relokin/+archive/uvd for installing the latest mesa. I have manually compiled it and installed, but Ubuntu was still using the old 9.1.3 version.

I found the instructions at:http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...tem&px=MTM1NDk
I tested it with mplayer on 720p videos, and it's working ( altough sometimes video screen freezes for a few seconds but anything else is good). get around 15-20% CPU usage on both cores compared to 60%-100% without vdpau acceleration.

Hmm... XBMC is a good idea, I will give it a try in a few seconds .
Thank you.

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Hmm... XBMC is a good idea, I will give it a try in a few seconds .
Thank you.

According to this post: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php...413#pid1400413 ...XBMC does not work well with the open source (OSS) UVD radeon driver ... this post is from April, though, so things may have improved since then. I haven't had time to read through the entire thread yet.

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I'm on ubuntu 12.10 with xserver-xorg-video-ati 7.2; using DRM-Next's latest 3.11 kernel (3.11.0-996-generic) and using mpv (fork of mplayer/mplayer2, note I tried using mplayer2 as well).
So far UVD works.... Though it appears with some videos I get really bad lag, not sure why, and these files happen to be 4:3 (h.264).... I tried other 4:3 files and 16:9 videos and they play fine, any ideas? Here's some info on opengl and vdpau:

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The vdpau/UVD implementation needs some work to stabilize. I get issues too with certain files (desktop A8-5500, Debian Testing 64-bit/Xfce 4.10 with kernel, mesa, xf86-ati from git).

I use mplayer (i think its from the 2 branch, default in Debian Testing). I found the best results with only mplayer itself, without any wrapper like smplayer - those pass tons of arguments and sometimes it seems those have detrimental effects.
Also, sometimes if a video has artifacts i restart the playback and most of the time it goes away. But there are videos that crap out anyway with vdpau (in any player).

You can add most (if not all) settings to the ~/.mplayer/config file to make it easy to use. Downside is that you have to learn the keyboard control shortcuts for the interface (mplayer --help).

For example i have (i use alsa+volume preamplification because for some reason with pulse the volume is too low):

I updated vlc to 2.1 last night and, in testing, I received those same three std_error lines on every file I attempted playback with ... (the only change being the decoding profile portion of the message being accordant to video resolution of the test file) ... she ain't working .... interestingly, it really didn't like the dvd test sample (from mplayer IIRC), as cpu went high on that one, whereas utilization for 1080 material was much lower and in accordance with what would be expected for software decoding of that res and the given bitrates